Steam News announces a
free weekend is underway for RAGE, id Software's game of shooting and
driving:

Play RAGE
for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup
RAGE at 75% off the regular price!*

RAGE is a groundbreaking first-person shooter set in the not-too-distant future
after an asteroid impacts Earth, leaving a ravaged world behind. You emerge into
this vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself against such
forces as bandit gangs, mutants, and the Authority – an oppressive government
regime that has a special interest in you in particular. Featuring intense
first-person shooter action, breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to
explore and jaw-dropping graphics powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5
technology, RAGE promises an experience like no other.

Fearing a planet-wide extinction from a massive asteroid headed towards Earth,
world leaders are faced with the inexorable task of ensuring human survival.
Left with few alternatives, life-sustaining pods filled with select people are
buried deep beneath the earth’s surface. You are one of the chosen members of
these modern day arks and abruptly enter the RAGE universe after surfacing
alone. Leaving you to your own devices to stay alive in a world filled with
those who prefer you dead, RAGE combines powerful storytelling with
heart-pounding action.

Rage was... boring. Enemies are bullet sponges. You can do 10 headshots on a guy and he's still living. It appears like an open-ended game, but it's just a linear corridor shooter, and I mean LINEAR! Invisible walls EVERYWHERE. Plus everything and bland and looks washed out, in a bad way. Worse texture detail I've seen since Duke Nukem 3D. I tried really hard to like it. I played 10 hours, but then gave up because it just wasn't getting any better.